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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
SHETLAND ISLANDERS.
SIngle-Hearted Men and Women Noted f
Their Industry and Honesty.

SIngle-Hearted Men and Women Noted for
Their Industry and Honesty.
The Shetland and Orkney islands be-
longed to Norway until 1853, when, as
history informs us, ''they were i'm
pledged to James the Third of Scotland
as part of the dowry given with his
Queen" for about that time he was
married to Princess Margaret of Den
mark. 1t is added that ''these islands
were never redeemed"
Shetlanders are a small, active and
hardy people, very genial, too, and dis
tinguished, whether rich or poor, for
very Industrious habits. No less are
they noted for intense love of country.
Much of the teamwork is carried on
by the women of the household. Fields
and gardens are their great delight.
They are adopts in culinary lore, and
spin, weave and make up stores of
household linen and fannels. No less
successfully do they cut and make
all family clothing, and as well
pride themselves upon the num-
Der of bags of stockings, thick
and warm, which they exhibit to
neighbors and friends with intense
satisfaction. Thrift and thoughtfulness
develop many bright touches of orna-
mentation, but the maiden's own wit
must devise the outlining, her own
dainty touch accomplish the delicate
needle-work. Shops full of beautiful
patterns and gay-hued materials are
unknown joys in Shetlandom. The
flowers of the field and the trees of the
wood must furnish not only patterns,
but the coloring needed for their woods
and threads. Every maiden must be
her own purveyor for every pigment
needed.
The great luxury of the peasant
women is tea-drinking. This article,
brought from distant ports, would be
beyond their means unless secured by
exchange, and is said to be universal
means of payment for little services
rendered. An errand involving hours
of travel will be cheerfully accom-
plished for lone drawing" of the
yearned-for refreshment, and this may
be said of many household services.
Skillful spinners will gladly ''give
many turns to the Wheel for COM
plement of the delicious beverage.
Sheep are largely a source of trade to
farmers of these islands; the mutton is
dark in color and of fine flavor, the
fleece is soft and of such delicate text
ure that from it may be spun thread
as f1imsy as daintiest cambria; one thou
sand yards are often spun from one
ounce of wool, each thread being three
fold, thus making three thousand yards
in all. Stockings knit from this can be
drawn through lingering, and for
such delicate hosiery two guineas per
pair, or even more, are often paid.
Within few years more and more of
this exquisite thread is used in making
shawls, pure white or dark gray, which
command very high prices; they are
like cobwebs for delicacy and light
ness.
What the camel is to an Arab, the
sure-footed, tough-fibred pony is to the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
THE HIDDEN EGG.

A Noted Mind-Reader's Most Interesting
Outdoor Experiment..
One of the most interesting of out
door experiments ever performed took
place in Berlin twelve months ago last
Easter. Having purchased an Easter
egg and put into it a quantity of gold,
the egg was given to Mr.. Kasson, the
American Minister, to hide anywhere
within a radius of a kilometer of the
Hotel de Rome, which was the starting
point. Accompanied by Count Moltke,
his Excellency, DR.. Lucius, and Prince
Ratibon, as a committee of inspection,
Mr.. Kasson took away the egg and hid
it, while I remained with the balance
of the committee in the hotel. Instead
of taking Mr.. Kasson by the hand, as I
had done in other cases, caused him
to be connected with me by a
piece of thin wire. One end of
the wire was twisted round my
right wrist and the other end round
his left; the coil itself remained
slack. Thus connected we started on
our errand of search. From time to
time the wire was drawn taut and it
cut into our wrists with the force l ex-
ercised in pulling my subject along;
but, as far as possible, I avoided actual
|sly touching his hand with my own.
After leaving the Inter den Linden we
turned into a narrow street and then
into the Emperor Wilhelm's stables. /
went up to corn box and found it
locked. For a moment took Mr.. Kas-
sons hand in mine in order to increase
the impression. This done. moved
toward Prince Ratibon, and putting
my hand in his pocket fetched out the
key of the box, which I at once opened,
and inside, among the corn, diseov-
cred the hidden egg. The egg and its
contents were afterward presented to
the Crown Princess of Germany as an
Easter gift for the Kindergarten, in
which her Imperial Highness takes so
deep an interest.-Stuart c. CunabeT-
land, in Nineteenth Century.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
He. Didn't Have Gout.

Fifty years ago the most popular
books for children were those entitled
..Peter Parley's. Tales The fronts
piece was picture representing t.Peter
Farley as a long-haired, venerable
old man, with a bandaged foot extended
on chair, and a crutch at his side,
saying to- a group of eager children;
'.'Take care, don't touch my equity toe!
If you do, Pll not tell you another
story
The author Of these popular stories
was Mr.. S. G. Goodrich, whose series
of Peter. Parley's juvenile books in
Guided more than ONE hundred volumes
of histories, travels, biographies,
stories, and works illustrating
the arts and sciences. But : the
youthful readers; knew nothing of
Mr.. Goodrich, all of them believed that
the frontispiece, was, a portrait of the,
author, and that his name was Peter
Farley. Once. while Mr.. Goodrich was.
visiting Savannah, Ga, gentleman
brought his two grandchildren to Sec
Peter Farley. One, a little girl, rushed
up to the author and gave him a ring
ing kiss. But the other, boy, stood
apart, and looked Mi. Goodrich over
from top to. toe. Then walking around
him, he. sat down.. without saying q
word, and resisted all attempts to draw
him into conversation. After the gen
,tleman and the. children had left the
room and were walking home, the boy
exclaimed: g54is s,
Grandfather; wouldn't have any
thing to do with that man; hesain't Pc
ter Farley. Don't you see that he
hasn't got his foot bound up and
don't walk with crutchp' ta.
The impression of the little boy was:
shared by thousands of persons, some.
of whom can yet recall the sigh that;
announced the departure of this pleas
amt Illusion of childhood Youths
Conapdssio7a. +.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
"ETON MONTEM."
A Profitable Institution of the Old Z
g1ish School.

Profitable institution of the Old En-
glish School.
Any old Eton boy would tell you that
you might as well never have been born
as not to know about Montem. Why,
Montem was as old as Queen Eliza
beth's time, and Queen Victoria was
very sorry to have to consent to have it
broken up. The senior colleger was
captain of Montem, and he sometimes
made e1.OOO out of it.
On the morning of Montem day, the
captain gave a great breakfast in the
hall to the fifth and sixth forms. Then
the boys marched twice around the
school yard, the ensign waved
the great flag, the corporals drew
their swords, and the procession
started through the Playing Fields to
Salt Hill, in long line, accompanied
by two or three regimental bands. The
officers wore red tail coats, white
trousers, cooked hats with feathers and
regimental boots; and the lower boys
wore blue coats with brass buttons,
stockings and pumps, and carried slen-
der white poles. But before this, long
before sunrise, the salt-bearers and
their twelve assistants had gone, some
on foot and some in gigs, to their
places on the great roads leading to
Elton, to beg salt from every body
they met. Salt meant money; and
every body had to give them salt.
George III. and Queen Charlotte al
ways gave fifty guineas apiece. The
money went to the captain at
Montem, to help him pay his
expenses at the university to
which he was to 60 after leaving Elton.
The salt-bearers, carried satin money
bags and painted slaves, and as re-
ceipts for the salt that they secured
they gave little printed tickets with the
date of the year, and a Latin motto.
Every body went to Montem. King
George always used to go, and Queen
Victoria went. There was always
''Montem poet who dressed in patch
work, and wore crown; and he drove
about the crowd in donkey cart, re-
citing his ode and fourishing copies of
it for sale.
When the procession came to the top
of Salt Hill, the ensign waved his flag
second time, and that ended the cele-
bration; only the boys and the visitors
all went to the inns at Windsor for
big dinner-Edacip, d. Mead, in st.
Nicholas ... ~. II s.5. -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
WINTER DAlRYlNG.
Some Reasons in Favor of Keeping Cow
in Milk During Cold Weather.

Some Reasons in Favor of Keeping Cows
in Milk During Cold Weather.
1t is claimed by some that cows give
more milk when winter dairying is
practiced than when summer dairying
is followed. It is easier to keep up the
flow of milk through the winter and
prolong it into summer, than to pro-
long it into winter after the stimulus of
maternity begins to subside and the
mess to shrink. Besides, as most herds
are managed, from grass to hay is a
most trying time, with alternate hot
and cold blasts, and diet that is nei-
Their green nor dry, and often not regular.
1t is worse than from hay to grass in
the spring, when the temperature is
softening instead of hardening, and the
bite of the green stuff nipped here and
there is so relishing, refreshing and in
MIGRATING. In summer dairying, the
cows 60 dry in winter, when it is most
expensive keeping them, while in win
ter dalrying they go dry through the
hot season, when feed is cheap, if it is
not abundant, and an extra grain feed
is not needed to keep up the tempera-
ture. This. too, is busy season, when
release from milking gives more time
for general farm work.-Rural Neso
Yorker.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27

| A Story of the Plain Nightingale, with His
Beautiful Voice, and the Gorgeous Pea
cock, with His Horrid Croak.
On broad green lawn, before a
white marble terrace covered with
flowers, magnificent peacock was en-
joying the sunshine one summer morn
ing. His breast was of the lOveliest
bright purple, and his tail was all full
of green and golden eyes. He fancied
that nobody in the whole world was OF
such consequence as himself. Presently
nightingale in search of his break
fast flew down to seek worms on the
lawn. He had been singing all the
night long to his mate, who was sitting
on their nest close by. And he felt
very hungry indeed. So he tugged
busily at the worms just peeping above
ground.
What mean-looking, addressed
creature you arer' said the peacock
haughtily, and regarding the nightin-
gale with great contempt, II wonder
you dare show yourself on this splendid
lawn; and in my presence, too!-get
away at once!''
l.
fast" said the nightingale. Il shan't
be long. My wife is sitting yonder in
the hawthorne thicket, ON four of the
loveliest brown eggs you ever saw in
your life. I must make haste back to
her, poor thing, or know she wiI feel
very lonely
Don't talk to me about your stupid
brown eggs" retorted the peacock with
supreme disdain; ''you are quite be-
meath my notice; get away! won't be
seen talking to you"
And he spread his gorgeous tail out
like fan, and showed himself off with
great many airs.
Providence does not give all its
good gifts to ene," replied the nightin-
gale. "You are splendid to look at;
but your voice is as bad as donkey's,
and sets peoples teeth on edge am
sober looking enough, but my voice
makes amends for that. Hush! don't
often sing by day; but isten!''
And he trilled forth such a shower
of sweet, clear, thrilling notes that
made the woods echo again. The
peacock was astonished, and CAPPED
stupidity at the speaker.
''There!r' said the nightingale; 81
don't want to show off, but wanted to
prove to you that all the good qualities
in the world do not belong to- one per-
son alone. Take my word for it, there
is some good in everybody, if we only
look for it in the right place. And
away he flew, leaving the, peace ok a
good deal ashamed of himself. -Astley
II. Baldwi,a> IN Little Folks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
No Repairs, No Passengers.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-The steamship
Adriatic, of the White Star line, which
sails for Liverpool to-day will take no
passengers, as the inspectors of foreign
steam vessels have reported to Collector
Magone that the CROSSROADS of one of the
cylinders is cracked, and the company will
not repair her on this side of the ocean, as
required by law.
four boats lost during her last voyage to
this side, will also leave without passen-
gers, as the company will not replace the
boats on this side. The law in regard to
the safety of passengers on ocean steam
ers is being very strictly carried out by
the inspectors
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The people of Paris eat 100000
tarks every year.
The cook in an English clergy
man's family has just received a legacy
of 81, 100000.
1t is reported that last year more
than loo, 900 emigrants went to the Ar
gentine Republic, most of them from
Italy.
King Kalakaua of the Hawaiian
Islands has gambled away $4,000 de-
posted by poor people in the Postal
Savings Bank.
Sir Thomas Gladstone, brother of
the ex-Premier, is strong Conserva-
tive, and an unequivocal opponent of
home rule in Ireland.
A French crank's estimate of hui
mainly in 1886 foots up ga lot of fools
who spend most of their time and
money in making iron balls to go
through steel plates and in making
steel plates to keep out iron balls.
The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke
of Westminster and the Duke of Bed
ford have incomes ranging from 81
100000 to $2,50O,000 year. No one
thinks of trying to estimate their pos
sessions in any other way.
The other day at Oxford a man
who had insisted on keeping bees was
plainly told by local dignitary that
his bees must be sent away because a
gentleman commoner had just been
stung. He replied instantly: '.Mr.
Dean, I assure you that you are doing
us great injustice. I know that bee
we'll. He is not mine at all, but be-
longs to Mr.. Bigg, of Merton
To show how enormously the cost
of first-class iron clad has increased
of late years in England, Lord Brassey
states that the propelling machinery of
the Howe has cost $515, 900, as against
the $4,000 of the Devastation; and
the latter ship has no hydraulic ma
chinery, which in the Howe adds to the
expense to the tune of $685.
AT the Lord Mayors banquet about
400 quarts of turtle soup are provided,
40 dishes of game, 400 chickens and
capons, IS turkeys, Sc hams, $50 lobster
salads, 60 meat pies, 120 quarts jellies
and 200 dishes of pastry. Two great
barons of beef, each $50 pounds in
weight, are features of the feast. About
four hundred people prepare and wait
on the feast.
According to L'Electricien, M. 81.
Dunville pledged his scientific reputa-
ton to the accuracy of the following
observation: eff two glasses of water
be placed, one upon the north pole of a
powerful magnet, and the other upon
the south pole, in four or five minutes
the former acquires a slight alkaline
reaction, while that on the south pole
becomes slightly acid.''
Rene Goblet, the new French Pre-
mier, is described by the London Truth
as ''a beautifully-built Tom Thumb,
with big head, staring and prominent
blue eyes, a long and snubby-ended
nose, and an air Of splendid self-con-
fidence. He is as aggressive as a game
cock, fond of badgering a Clerical as a
dog is of worrying cat; no Red Radi-
cal, but reduced copy in Republican
surroundings of the skeptical, liberal
and frondeur bourgeois of Louis
Philippe's time. Nine. Goblet is a tall
woman. He seems, on entering a
drawing-room behind her, like tor
pedo-boat in the wake of large
steamer"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
PiTh AND POINT.

L
| Good loves the cheerful giver, 2
but the trouble is so many of us are
| cheerful over so pesky little Philadel
| phia Call.
When a man becomes firmly con.
! vinced that he is genius, it is then
that the fringe slowly begins to form
on the bottom of his trousers leg.-Life.
Miss Flim-Have you read Mr..
| Rattlebrane's novel? Tell me, how did
it come out? Fogg-I suspect he
had it published at his own risk
Boston Transcript
The yacht Thistle, now building at
Glasgow, is specially designed to COM
pete for Americas cup next season.
Thistle give newspaper jokers another
puns anent the race.-Norristown
Herald.
you don't like these modern com
| posers,' then, Mr.. Jones?'' 'sOh, yes,
some of 'em; but / draw the line at
this Teller WagWag-Wag-er-ner. You
see, / can't whistle a tune he ever
wrote, or do anything of his en- the
banjo" THAT is rather drawback
to his music, l admit. "-Harper' 5
Bazaar.
High old-style daughter-Are my
feathers on all right, MAJ Mother
with opera glasses)-I will see. Oh,
yes; they are all right, except one. I
put the step-ladder away, so that I
can't fix it, but it don t look so bad, my
t. i
They were seated at late Sunday
dinner when the door-bell rang. ''Good-
ness gracious!" she exclaimed, '.it's
our minister. and I've been eating
onions" ''Never mind, my DEAR" re-
piled her husband, ''you need not kiss
him to-day" -Brooktyn Bridge Ban
ner.
"A young man asked the lady of his
affections the other evening how she
liked the look of his new style of stand
ing collar. After critically surveying
him and the collar, she replied: Every
nice, indeed. 1t looks like white
washed fence around lunatic asy-
lum. IN 7. Ledger.
Of the 10000 or 10000 Boston
women entitled to vote only 1,193 have
taken the trouble to register. There
are a great many women in this coun-
try who want the ballot, but they want
it brought to their house, cut en- traine
with a U-shaped neck, and garnished
with jet trimming. -Norristoa0n Herald.
Two pickpockets saw gentleman
receive a large sum at the bank, and
followed him for some time to get
chance at it. Finally the watched man
turned into lawyers office, and one
of the watchers said: THAT settles it.
He's gone. Come along" mo. no!'
said the other; ''wait till the lawyer
comes out. Wen tackle him!'
Bobby was awake when his mother
came home from the party at midnight.
Ibid you say your prayers to nurse,
Bobby" she asked, ''before you went
to bed?' mo, Mamma, I fordot it."
"Well, you better come and say them
to me, now'' WHAT" said Bobby, in
drowsy astonishment, ''does bod stay
up all ight?''-Proirie Farmer.
-Tramp-Can't you spare little
present for an old soldier who lost his
leg in the charge at Cold Harbor, Vir-
ginia? Citizen-But, look here, man,
last month you told me you lost that
leg in the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi.
Tramp-So I did, so I did; but the
Battle of Corinth was fought at Cold
Harbor, and amt the man to go back
on the history of my country.-Bur-
Jeffe
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
THEIR REVENGE.

Twas Ave o'clock one winter day;
Lessons were over. school was done,
And laughing, chattering, full OF fun,
A group of school-boys sped away,
Joyous at leaving work for play.
Then, as though striving hard to shun
Their gay companions, three boys sought
A quiet corner hid from sight,
And talked in whispered words. half caught,
Somewhat to this effect:
'sYou're right
Jones is sneakl what made him go
And tell old Doctor Robinson
That you and Jack and had done
That ugly drawing meant to show
The doctor minus the red wig
That covers up his bald old pate?
OF course we do not care fig
For punishment; at any rate,
A hundred lines apiece to write
Well knock them off this very night.
But JoHes-how best to pay him outs
That is the thing to think about"
ST tell you what it u.s." said Jack,
':Tve got aplan to pay him back.
Directly after tea tonight
We three will hide-there'll be no light
At one end of the corridor;
And, when Jones passes, seize him tight,
Blindfold and gag him, all before
There's time for him to make sound.
Then, having him all firmly bound,
Well carry him up stairs at once,
And toss him in a blanket, so
That he won't peach again, know,
Or I'm Ounce"
"Agreed. agreed!' his comrades said;
'sWe'n have him ere we go to bed!'
The plan conceived was carried out.
That night the three stood silently,
The shadows hiding them from view
Where Jack had said, and Just about
The time when Jones would pass they knew
'He's coming now! know his treadl
Be ready both to hold his head
And gag his mouth while will seize
and hold him firmly by the kneesr'
The plot was goodl Allhappened right,
And soon the prisoner, gagged and bound,
Was sayly borne into the light,
When 10! it wasn't Jones, they found!
They'd caught-with horror be it said
Old Doctor Robinson instead
Tell you what happened then? Now why?
You surely know well as
Little Folks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
A Narrow Escape.

NEW YORK, Jan. ga dispatch to the
Herald from Tiff1n, O., says: There came
near being another accident on the Balti-
mere q Ohio yesterday at Republic. An
east-bound freight train Numbered past
the depot when the limited express was
almost due, and the operator stopped it
only by hurting stone through the win
dow of the caboose, awakening the con-
ductor, who managed to stopthe train and
back it on the siding just one minute be-
fore tram No. rushed past. These were
identically the came numbered trains that
caused the recent disaster. The engineer
had been on duty nearly twenty hours,
and did not see the danger signal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
They Knew Nina.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan 19.-Miss Nina
Clarke Van Zandt, the young lady who is
to marry August Spies, the condemned
Chicago Anarchist, is well remem-
bered by many people in this city,
where she was born and where
her childhood was passed. The family
resided for some years on Master street,
near Eighteenth, and the neighbors who
recall the little miss of ten or twelve
years of age as last seen by them, de-
scribe her as child full of life, and
tending toward the genus known as s'Tom-
boy" and manifesting at an early age the
self-will and determination that have
characterized her strongly in her rela-
lions with her lover, the Anarchist Spies.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
Rendering Dresses ineombustisie.

At the cost of fifty cents, the dresses
of the whole household May be rendered
incombustible by dipping them in a
solution of tungstate of soda-ope
pound in two gallons of water. The
most delicate color viii not be affected
by it, and the ironing will not interfere
with the effectiveness of tho process.
In the case of starched dresses, instead
of dipping them in the solution, to
three parts of good dry starch add one
part of tungstate of soda, and use the
starch in the ordinary way. Ladies
should decline to purchase light dress
materials which are not shown to be
! practically tire-proof. London Lancet,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
To be Prevented BY the Military, If Nee

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Some time ago
the Secretary of the Interior granted the
Phoenix & Maricopa road permission to lay
a track through the ella Indian reserva-
ton, Arizona Territory, provided map Of
definite location was filed at the depart
ment and the consent of the Indians OBJ
tanned. Neither of these conditions have
as yet been complied with, but the rail-
road company has commenced to grade it's
road bed, and have a number of men at
work. The agent Of the ella Indians yes
terdSy telegraphed to Secretary Lamar
that the railroad company was violating
the law and asking for instructions. A
telegram was Immediately sent to the
president of the company ordering him to
desist, and a telegram was also sent to
the agent directing him, in case the COM
pany refused to comply with the instruc-
tiops of the department, to call upon the
officer commanding the nearest United
States post and have him enforce the law.